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Summary:
Wang Bing's Youth documentary trilogy concludes with migrant factory workers celebrating the New Year with their families. Their cyclical struggle captured over 5 years becomes a poignant portrait of surviving in contemporary rural China.
Genre(s):
Documentary
Runtime:
152 min
Sep 14, 2024
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IndieWire
Sep 14, 2024
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RogerEbert.com
Nov 8, 2024
There's so much detail and such a clear sense of dramatic proportion that it almost doesn't matter that the movie doesn't resolve itself traditionally or with a full stop. You can still get a clear sense of how time moves for the workers in Zhili in "Youth (Homecoming)" without necessarily knowing what comes next.
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Sep 14, 2024
The long, unbroken rhythm of Wang’s filmmaking somehow casts a spell, and he certainly has a good eye for characters. That’s a blessing considering how slow and considered the takes are here, watching with equally intense absorption whether the subjects are sleeping on a train or constructing seams or making food. But overall, the lack of differentiation can be wearisome.
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